Sustainable Utilization of Natural Resources (PDF)

Dr. Prasenjit Mondal, is presently working as Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He has worked as Process Engineer in industry i.e., Jay Shree Chemicals Ltd. and Hind Lever Chemicals Ltd.; as scientist in research lab i.e., Indian Institute of Petroleum Dehradun; as faculty member in academic institutes i.e, B. P. Technical University, National Institute of Technology Allahabad and Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He has guided one Ph.D. and 11 M.Tech. thesis. Six Ph.D. and ten M.Tech. students are presently working under his guidance. His area of research is Energy and Environmental Engineering (Water /wastewater treatment through adsorption, electrocoagulation and biological processes, microbial fuel cells, oil from algae, energy from coal, biomass and wastes, life cycle assessment). He has introduced a subject "Waste to Energy" at M.Tech. level in the current semester. He has handled number of R&D projects sponsored by CSIR, DST, Ministry of drinking water and sanitation, MHRD, RIL, NPCIL and HPCL. He is involved in an international project under AISRF scheme with IIP Dehradun, BPCL from India and CSIRO, UoM and RMIT from Australia. He has delivered invited lectures in reputed national and international institutions/ industries including UTS, Australia, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has organized number of short term courses funded by CSIR, MoES and AICTE. He has published one book, more than 100 papers and five reports in his credit. Some of his papers secured position in the list of top 25 papers of the journals for a considerable period. He is a reviewer for several international journals including Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy. He is a life member of the Indian Institute of Engineers.